Bacterial migration through punctured surgical gloves under real surgical conditions

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hübner, Nils Olaf ^a   Goerdt, Anna Maria ^a   Stanislawski, Natalie ^a   Assadian, Ojan ^b   Heidecke, Claus Dieter ^a   Kramer, Axel ^a   Partecke, Lars I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PUNCTURED SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL GLOVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77954046563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-192     Document Type: Article

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